Quotidian bus journeys: City life reflections on Lothian buses
Thesis
Noble, A. F. Quotidian bus journeys: City life reflections on Lothian buses. (Thesis)
Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2396
The main objectives of this research are to investigate the interaction between the city of Edinburgh, Lothian Buses (Edinburgh’s principal public transport provider) and peop...
A remote marriage: The theory and practice of being apart and staying together.
Book
Wigan, M. (2007)
A remote marriage: The theory and practice of being apart and staying together. In S. Holland (Ed.), Remote relationships in a small world, 277-284. Peter Land
Small children, a time consuming job, and remote living are not conducive to a happy life. Why does one choose to do it? If one has to, how can one arrange one's life to make ...
The modelling of motorcycle ownership and usage: a UK study
Journal Article
Burge, P., Fox, J., Kouvenhoeven, M., Rohr, C., & Wigan, M. (2007)
The modelling of motorcycle ownership and usage: a UK study. Transportation research record, 59-68. https://doi.org/10.3141/2031-08
This paper presents work, undertaken for the UK Department for Transport, to help determine how policy could affect motorcycle usage. There are two important choices that dete...
Car driver speed choice in Scotland.
Journal Article
Stradling, S. G. (2007)
Car driver speed choice in Scotland. Ergonomics, 50, 1196-1208. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140130701318681
Drivers who commit driving violations, such as speeding, crash more. Driving violations reduce safety margins amplifying the impact of driver errors. Speed is placed in the co...
Performance, importance and user disgruntlement: a six-step method for measuring satisfaction with travel modes.
Journal Article
Stradling, S. G., Anable, J. & Carreno, M. (2007)
Performance, importance and user disgruntlement: a six-step method for measuring satisfaction with travel modes. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 41, 98-106. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2006.05.013. ISSN 0965-8564
The technique described in this paper builds on work in the customer service literature on the measurement of customer dissatisfaction to develop a new way of combining measur...
Stochastic social optimum traffic assignment
Journal Article
Maher, M., Stewart, K., & Rosa, A. (2005)
Stochastic social optimum traffic assignment. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 39(8), 753-767. doi:10.1016/j.trb.2004.10.001
This paper formulates a Stochastic Social Optimum (SSO) that relates to the Stochastic User Equilibrium (SUE) in the same way as the Social Optimum (SO) relates to the User Eq...
Road user charging: Theory and practice
Journal Article
Saleh, W. (2005)
Road user charging: Theory and practice. Transport Policy, 12(5), 373-376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2005.06.001
In 1999 the DETR became concerned that there was a general shortage of research projects looking at innovatory approaches to road user charging and so it launched a programme ...
Effect of attribute perceptions on mode choice behavior in a transit market.
Journal Article
Wan, Q., & Lo, H. K. (2005)
Effect of attribute perceptions on mode choice behavior in a transit market. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 6, 1740-1750. https://doi.org/10.11175/easts.6.1740
Random utility models are often used to model traveler mode choice behavior in the demand analysis of a transit system. Transit operators might base their policy and operation...
Implementing Road User Charging: The Lessons Learnt from Hong Kong, Cambridge and Central London
Journal Article
Ison, S. G., & Rye, T. (2005)
Implementing Road User Charging: The Lessons Learnt from Hong Kong, Cambridge and Central London. Transport Reviews, 25(4), 451-465. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144164042000335788
Road user charging has long been advocated as a means of dealing with congestion in urban areas. Numerous schemes have been proposed but have advanced little beyond the drawin...
Overcoming barriers to the implementation of car parking charges at UK workplaces.
Journal Article
Rye, T., & Ison, S. G. (2005)
Overcoming barriers to the implementation of car parking charges at UK workplaces. Transport Policy, 12, 57-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2004.11.002
Charging employees to park at their places of work is a transport policy measure advocated by the UK government as a means of reducing car commuting and hence achieving the tw...